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0:15 dean thornberry here myrna france eric overholzer present chair marshall and i'll keep checking for councillor belcott um i i apologize for any interruption but we cannot hear the i cannot hear the chair's audio yeah it's got no audio i have no audio either can you hear me okay yeah can you hear me um right now no oh can you hear me now

1:07 i think it just needed to be turned up or on all right great so uh let's uh move on to the consent agenda so we have the approval of minutes from july 13th 2026 and approval of warrants for 2026 second quarter uh are there is there a motion to approve or did you have any questions okay moved and seconded all those in favor say aye aye thank you motion carries then moving on to separate business our first item is approval of ambulance rate rates for 2027 and chief knorr i believe you're kicking this one off

1:57 hello my name is john norman fire chief clark counts fire rescue and uh ccfr is one of the three fire service agencies served by uh the amr contract with ems district 2. for 2027 amr has requested a 10 increase in the rate for transports they are allowed to do so by contract they cited the 4.4 cpi plus an approximately 13 rise in costs for their other associated rates like labor fuel all the things that we tend to notice going up right now so the ems advisory board met discussed these reviewed uh information from amr we gave them back some questions to